Tag: FACEBOOK VR

Facebook‘s Virtual Reality division OCULUS is in full-on hiring mode, reportedly recruiting to add up to 453 new employees, which would add nearly 50% to its current worforce. According to Road to VR reports, citing their own data, Oculus would have tripled the amount of job openings in December of 2017. As of right now,…

Felix & Paul Studios is considered by most of the 360VR Community as the Pioneers of the current wave of 360º Cinematographers. Their work with Cirque du Soleil, LeBron James, the Fox Innovation Labs and more has been highly praised. ‘The People’s House – Inside the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama’ earned the…

Today at CES, being held in Las Vegas from Januaray 9-12, Oculus announced that it has partnered with Xiaomi and Qualcomm for new VR headsets. Xiaomi is Oculus’s hardware partner for the global launch of its Oculus Go standalone VR headset. Xiaomi also revealed the Mi VR Standalone headset, which is being developed in partnership with Oculus and will…

This one is a Special Dedication to all the clickbait articles that were claiming “VR is Dead”. In a report issued Monday, Independent Market Analysis firm Canalys stated that total global shipments of VR Headsets set a new milestone, exceeding 1 million units sold for the first time, during the 3rd quarter of 2017. The Big Three that…

HTC will be hosting its Vive Developer Conference (VDC 2017) in Beijing this coming November 14, and if all the rumors are true, that would be the date that the HTC Standalone VR Headset would be unveiled. As we reported back in May during the 2017 Google I/O Conference, HTC and Lenovo are both supposed to launch…

We were excited to report about the 2017 Solar Eclipse, not only because we are nerds (lol), but because there was an direct connection to 360VR! As if knowing the 1st Solar Eclipse of the Century was coming wasn’t enough, we distributed many high fives at the office when we found out that many news…

During Oculus Connect in 2016, Facebook Oculus announced it had partnered with Warner Brothers to create a total of three Virtual Reality Experiences to support Blade Runner 2049, the Denis Villeneuve-Directed sequel to the cult classic Blade Runner. This past July, we got our first taste via Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit on Samsung’s Gear VR….

Jason Rubin, Vice President of Content at Oculus, pictured above, tweeted this morning #YouHaveNoExcusesLeft to not have a VR headset. Talk about big news in the VR Industry, with Nokia making its major announcement earlier today. Facebook dropped some positive news to turn that from upside down, by cutting the price of its Oculus VR headset by…

Reports came out last year that Samsung VR was working on a product code-named Odyssey, and company execs admitted that Samsung was working on higher-end VR projects. Last week, photos of what was claimed to be final product photos we posted by Twitter user Walkingcat. The images, included in this article, show what would be a high-end…

According to a post on his personal blog, Eugene Wei has left Facebook. After enjoying a few Executive roles at Hulu and Flipboard, Wei joined Fb back in 2015. The post suggests that he would have left in mid-July, roughly around a few weeks after the in-house cinematic VR production team, Oculus Story Studio, was…